Summertime Mixtape Vol. 7 — Alex Olson, ‘Gnar Gnar’

Long before the techno music, the abdicated Girl pro slot and the post-‘Fully Flared’ shoe-sponsor shuffle, there was a plaid-clad spikey-haired yungster going off over a few sessions in London for a Mark Gonzales/Sam Salganik VHS-exclusive video project. In its way ‘Gnar Gnar’ captures the purest-form Alex Olson, with all the elements in place: the flannels, the poked backside tailslides, those gorilla arms, the frontside tailslides and backside ollies boosted for a camcorder still a few years away from being picked up by Palace.

Tags: Alex Olson, Girl, Gnar Gnar, Krooked, LDN, plaid, Sam Salganik, the Gonz, the vhs medium, Yungstar, Zappa